1952 Mantle in TV Show

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Originally Posted by Volod

Not the one you are looking for, but the plot of the Bruce Willis flick "Cop Out" contains a reference to a '52 Topps card - I think it is the Pafko, though. Willis' character tries to sell the card for less than a grand, if I recall, and at the end of the film, someone shoots the guy carrying the card in his shirt pocket and the bullet also destroys the card. Nobody cared but Willis.

Yup, it was the #1 Pafko card from the '52 Topps set. I think he wanted to sell it to pay for his daughter's wedding, or something like that. It was a bit of a throwback to when price guides would inflate the values of the first and last cards in sets, because back in the day kids supposedly rubber banded their cards together with those first and last cards being on the tops and bottoms of the stacks, and getting the most damage from the rubber bands then. So nicer condition first and last cards in sets were supposedly worth more money then than most other cards in the set. Not sure that thinking is much the case anymore.